tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.comments2017-06-28T07:43:37.858-04:00The eBook TestMike Canehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-4555178946661771112009-09-08T18:26:58.160-04:002009-09-08T18:26:58.160-04:00I love Wordpress. It&#39;s so customizable. I left...I love Wordpress. It&#39;s so customizable. I left Blogger a few years ago and would never go back. If you can afford to register your domain and host it (I use Dreamhost, which has super-easy 1-click WP installation), I highly recommend it. It&#39;s nice to have an uncluttered URL.<br /><br />Love your blog, by the way. You have great ideas for the future of reading.Irishttp://www.irissutcliffe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-44210997511494598582009-09-08T18:07:05.594-04:002009-09-08T18:07:05.594-04:00From what I can tell, the only thing keeping you o...From what I can tell, the only thing keeping you on blogger is the ease of posting. If you&#39;ve solved your browser issue with Chrome, then it sounds to me like you should move for better visibility and reader stats.laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14697740484092427891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-53047283031552307192009-09-08T16:52:00.197-04:002009-09-08T16:52:00.197-04:00&gt;&gt;&gt;Compare a book bought from sony displa...&gt;&gt;&gt;Compare a book bought from sony displayed in version 2 to version 3<br /><br />I can&#39;t do that. I installed over 2 and have no backup. It doesn&#39;t matter to me personally anyway, as I&#39;d never try to read an eBook on my crap monitor unless it was an absolute emergency.Mike Canehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-62816034745526678702009-09-08T16:50:12.050-04:002009-09-08T16:50:12.050-04:00&gt;&gt;&gt;I&#39;m pretty sure 2 exists with the ...&gt;&gt;&gt;I&#39;m pretty sure 2 exists with the concept of &quot;holds&quot; on library eBooks, but I haven&#39;t tested this out.<br /><br />Not at the NYPL. They send you an email and hold it for 72 hours. Immediacy is better.Mike Canehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-85652073255930310482009-09-08T15:50:54.341-04:002009-09-08T15:50:54.341-04:00Compare a book bought from sony displayed in versi...Compare a book bought from sony displayed in version 2 to version 3<br />Nice sharp letters in version 2, fuzzy letters (at least to my eyes) in version 3. I also found the background (full screen mode) a light grayish color in version 2 to be superior to version 3 which is black. I switched back to 2. As far as usability I think version 2 is superior to version 3.SFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13910511545447925757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-8237758210758749932009-09-08T14:20:36.414-04:002009-09-08T14:20:36.414-04:00great blog -- very informative. you might like thi...great blog -- very informative. you might like this article on various electronic readers and how they are perceived in the marketplace: http://onthebutton.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/books-are-so-yesterday/the key to the cabinethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830152174200696263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-77742034085277624052009-09-08T13:19:22.912-04:002009-09-08T13:19:22.912-04:00I&#39;m pretty sure 2 exists with the concept of &...I&#39;m pretty sure 2 exists with the concept of &quot;holds&quot; on library eBooks, but I haven&#39;t tested this out.Neelan Choksihttp://www.lexcycle.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-46988243548732892462009-09-08T09:09:15.133-04:002009-09-08T09:09:15.133-04:00That’s almost disturbing.That’s almost disturbing.Gavin Veaseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-36654153705309209562009-09-08T08:08:28.295-04:002009-09-08T08:08:28.295-04:00movemoveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-14027245893446903112009-09-08T02:59:07.597-04:002009-09-08T02:59:07.597-04:00move already, blogger is useless! You need to open...move already, blogger is useless! You need to open a new page just to comment!<br />EoinEoin Purcellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410666109421809052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-25609773116701396042009-09-08T01:53:16.700-04:002009-09-08T01:53:16.700-04:00I think the thing that will break it open will be ...I think the thing that will break it open will be the Pandora model: $100 a year for all the books you can read. A digital for-profit library.<br /><br />The publishing industry&#39;s even more fragmented than the music industry, so this will not be a trivial task. Overdrive shows no motivation.<br /><br />So I think we discerning ebook consumers should start up such a concern. Who&#39;s with me?InteractMD.comhttp://interactmd.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-50187218799698854862009-09-07T20:19:44.155-04:002009-09-07T20:19:44.155-04:00@David I doubt we&#39;ll get dual color screens fo...@David I doubt we&#39;ll get dual color screens for US$99 at the start!<br /><br />See this video for the possibilities of two screens:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbh4Fdnv-s0" rel="nofollow">the dual-display ebook reader project</a>Mike Canehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-17972350607235221932009-09-07T19:53:25.568-04:002009-09-07T19:53:25.568-04:00This is a true rumour. Ellis Wang, the person behi...This is a true rumour. Ellis Wang, the person behind the netbook phenomenon at ASUS, tweeted about it today on LinkedIn.John Koetsierhttp://sparkplug9.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-9546807437671567782009-09-07T19:17:32.721-04:002009-09-07T19:17:32.721-04:00I&#39;ll reply here because it&#39;s more fun.
I ...I&#39;ll reply here because it&#39;s more fun.<br /><br />I don&#39;t think ePub should be saved because it should be saved (if that makes sense). I think it should be saved because it has the most market penetration, and it&#39;s the weak link in the system. We can do something really useful here, because it&#39;s so accessible.<br /><br />Think of it like this: every ePub &quot;chapter&quot; file is just an HTML document. You can include tons of useful stuff in there. So write all your advanced CSS, all your cool javascript, all the stuff we can do in websites and can easily include. Save it out, and upload it. Very few ePub readers actually validate anything, so most of them will run it without problem.<br /><br />Make a new ePub reader for iPhone etc that uses the indexing etc as before, but renders the individual pages using a stock HTML rendering engine. It&#39;s dead simple for iPhone and Android at least. These will be called ePub2-compliant readers.<br /><br />For everyone else? Include some stock text at the top of each file that says &quot;YOUR READER IS TOO OLD. SOME FEATURES MAY NOT DISPLAY CORRECTLY&quot;. On the ePub2 reader, you can use Javascript to hide that so no one sees it. On Stanza etc, it&#39;ll be there in big red letters (assuming Stanza supports changing font colour, bloody hell)<br /><br />Once that shift takes place, it&#39;s not a question of IF you can do the features you want, it&#39;s a question of WHICH features you&#39;re going to do first. Deep meta-text, internal cross-linking, dynamic content and commenting... all easily done in a web browser. So force the format to adapt. The best way to is ignore the rules.<br /><br />That&#39;s what I mean.<br /><br />It&#39;s easier than trying to create a new format from scratch, anyway :)MCMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15272776254943685656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-49691920568054888342009-09-07T19:15:15.886-04:002009-09-07T19:15:15.886-04:00I&#39;m not sure I quite follow the gushing about ...I&#39;m not sure I quite follow the gushing about Asus, but if this is really a cheap, coloured e-ink e-reader, then that would be a game changer.<br /><br />I do wonder about the logic of dual-screens, though. It&#39;s efficient and useful for the old paper-bound codex, but it seems arbitrary (and costly) for an electronic device.Davidhttp://backstrip.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-63322596228622132532009-09-07T17:02:12.922-04:002009-09-07T17:02:12.922-04:00Still watching, still waiting.
My history as a pr...Still watching, still waiting.<br /><br />My history as a prognosticator is rather poor so I&#39;ll just sit back and see. Some commentators keep talking about the demise of e-readers but if they keep dropping in price like this...I dunno...Cliff Burnshttp://cliffjburns.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-17225132735907014202009-09-07T16:28:37.449-04:002009-09-07T16:28:37.449-04:00FUDFUDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-54315756606523360762009-09-07T13:51:22.218-04:002009-09-07T13:51:22.218-04:00Agreed. This will change eBook readers for everyon...Agreed. This will change eBook readers for everyone and well, there&#39;s no stopping Asus from becoming the Great Big Generic Gadget Giant Company.<br /><br />Let&#39;s see if anyone can follow in their footprints with a properly priced eBook reader.Randolphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05997175656842769265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-63706499934501719362009-09-07T02:01:36.048-04:002009-09-07T02:01:36.048-04:00Well the way that I get it to connect to the pc is...Well the way that I get it to connect to the pc is with it running i hook up the cable. Then hit the power switch for a second and it gives u access to the device&#39;s cardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-79609159755087231282009-09-06T08:42:45.128-04:002009-09-06T08:42:45.128-04:00The word addon can be messy, but it works.
Reade...The word addon can be messy, but it works.<br /><br />Readerworks requires you to have all the htm,l ready and waiting.<br /><br />XML2lit, if you can find it now, works by converting xml to the html and then to .lit.<br /><br />The linespacing in .lit can be a bit of a pain if there is no breaks in the line. But if you are generating it yourself, then it is not insurmountable.<br /><br />I might see if I can resupply the xml2lit program somewhere, but will have to give 2 versions. One with the original xsl, and one with my highly modified version. :D<br /><br />shaun.v ~at~ ntlworld ~fullstop~ comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-59105915361264869382009-09-06T08:34:54.933-04:002009-09-06T08:34:54.933-04:00Very true. The .lit format is a brilliant if unde...Very true. The .lit format is a brilliant if underused format. I have quite a few bought .lit books myself.<br /><br />I even create them using the old xml2lit, but using my highly modified xsl files. :/<br /><br />My HTC phone can use the.lit format but not the DRM so will have to strip that to read the bought books, though my homemade ones are fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-83427996687912475652009-09-06T08:24:48.741-04:002009-09-06T08:24:48.741-04:00I, personally, still use .Lit. It&#39;s a better ...I, personally, still use .Lit. It&#39;s a better format to my mind.<br /><br />I create mine with the old xml2lit, though the XSL files are seriously not the originals. :)<br /><br />As to the blank lines, the full line is very bad. Too much of a break up unless a change of scene. Though no gap between paragraphs can make a little awkward to read.<br /><br />Solution? I use a 4pt gap as part of the Paragraph command in the CSS. Works quite well. :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-66417224007125480742009-09-05T21:39:10.507-04:002009-09-05T21:39:10.507-04:00...whereas I just want to get my work into Readers......whereas I just want to get my work into Readers&#39; hands, as many as I possibly can. Money, making a living, has never been an object. Creating ground-breaking, innovative work, drawing intelligent, erudite Readers. Ah, Readers. I&#39;m positively GREEDY for Readers. Because I firmly believe if the Readers come, that&#39;s what creates the buzz and the buzz, of course, is what takes you that next step up the ladder...where there is the possibility of MANY, MANY MORE Readers. And that&#39;s what I&#39;m thinking about as I post another story or novel on my blog, letting people read it for absolutely nothin&#39;. Encouraging them, in fact...<br /><br />It beats the ol&#39; submission game and dealing with agents and editors with the brains of lobotomized hamsters. <br /><br />Readers...gotta have more Readers...Cliff Burnshttp://cliffjburns.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-28805760362975752562009-09-05T17:28:20.563-04:002009-09-05T17:28:20.563-04:00&gt;&gt;&gt;eBook piracy is indeed rampant. A quic...&gt;&gt;&gt;eBook piracy is indeed rampant. A quick search of Demonoid will reveal thousands of copyrighted works in Sony&#39;s LRF format (or so I&#39;ve heard).<br /><br />@Joe: LRF is a hacked format, not the for-pay Sony BBeB. It could be those titles were format-shifted from others. I haven&#39;t checked myself.<br /><br />&gt;&gt;&gt;Maybe I&#39;m unusual, but I bought my ebook reader for the specific purpose of buying things which are unavailable in print.<br /><br />&gt;&gt;&gt;On a side note, phones &amp; tablets are not he future of ebooks - reading on an LCD sucks - bad.<br /><br />@rjnagle 1) You are the first person I have ever had admit something like that. 2) The population of Stanza on iPhone and iPod Touch towers over the combined population of all eInk devices.<br /><br />&gt;&gt;&gt;and e-books far less than they are now.<br /><br />@Cliff: Do the math, Cliff. If you bought a car, would you also pay for gas at the per-gallon cost of one-fifth the car&#39;s price? As a writer, I admit I fear the day of fifty-cent and one-dollar eBooks.Mike Canehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396654716615965650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888403915883527494.post-22541082091521282212009-09-05T10:34:32.446-04:002009-09-05T10:34:32.446-04:00Stirring the waters again, Mike, thatta boy.
I pu...Stirring the waters again, Mike, thatta boy.<br /><br />I put the question to people in my LibraryThing group, asking what price they&#39;d be willing to pay for an e-Reader and the overwhelming majority said they&#39;d only consider it if the Readers were less that $100 and e-books far less than they are now. These are book-lovers, the core audience for publishers. Would cheap Readers radically affect the publishing world? Maybe...I&#39;m not afraid to find out since for the past six months my site has been inundated by hundreds of E-Reader users who are downloading and reading my novels and short stories in reams, eager for anything to plug into their expensive gadgets...Cliff Burnshttp://cliffjburns.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com